State of the States

States are facing three major hurdles to filling their transportation and infrastructure coffers in 2015: continued fallout from the recession, crumbling infrastructure and an increase in the utilization of alternative transportation fuels. Much of the current funding for state infrastructure needs comes from two sources – federal funding and state gas taxes.

Politics & Government News

Matthew Yglesias: “America’s constitutional democracy is going to collapse.” “Some day … there is going to be a collapse of the legal and political order and its replacement by something else.” “The breakdown of American constitutional democracy is a contrarian view. But it’s nothing more than the view that rather than everyone being wrong about ...